Perez's unlikely homer lifts Giants past Reds 3-2

Cincinnati -- If the Giants follow through on this best-in-baseball business and do big things, Wednesday night's 3-2 victory at Great American Ball Park will be remembered as one of those "special" victories:

-- When a team gets a game-winning homer by a 1-for-21 hitter, and the pitcher who served it up says, "I didn't even know who that guy was ... "

-- When a leadoff error in the eighth inning by the Gold Glove-caliber shortstop in a one-run game barely causes a flinch ...

-- When a squad seems doomed to its first consecutive losses in nearly three weeks and comes from behind to win, at a park where the team had lost 11 times in its past 12 regular-season games ...

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